“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”

“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”

“…But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences"
"Is there anything you can take for it?”

“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”

“We have only love,
to offer as a prayer,
for all the wrongs in the world.
So… like singing troubadours we’ll go,
singing love wherever we go.”

“Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.”

“Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.”

“We got all the influences for it [Global a Go-Go] from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.”

“Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.”